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Scranton, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Frenchburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40322. It stands on Slab Camp Branch. The Survey maps it on the Scranton quadrangle. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Scranton within Menifee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Scranton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 663 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2002Smoking2.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestDEVILS SPA
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITTS ACRES
3 July 2012Natural7.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCOMBS
15 May 2013Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRYAN ROAD
8 April 2013Smoking1.2 acresDaniel Boone National ForestLEATHERWOOD
6 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2010Smoking198 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCLEAR CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menifee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scranton in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindScranton-A tree was reportedly blown down by thunderstorm downburst winds near 1400 Tom Stamper Road.

Every storm recorded in Menifee County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Craft (historical)2.4 miles14
Big Woods2.4 miles14
Ratliff2.9 miles12
Leatherwood (historical)3.1 miles10
Korea3.9 miles14
Dan4.0 miles14
Back (historical)4.6 miles14
West Denniston (historical)4.7 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ScrantonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7438732The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 515303. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.